Where do you want to live?
Nobody wants to live in a world full of wastes.
What is waste?
When a material can no longer be used after it has served its purpose, it is considered as waste.
How much waste is produced in the Philippines every day?
35,000,000 kilos of garbage or solid waste every day
Waste Management Using the 5Rs Techniques
Reporter:Duane Garret T. Lerias
5Rs Techniques
Reduce Reuse Recycle Recover Repair
Reduce
Reduce simply means to lessen the amount of trash that will add to the environment
Ways to reduce trash
Buy rechargeable batteries instead of disposable batteries
Buy products that have bigger packs
Reuse
Reuse means to find other uses for materials that are already used
Recycle
Recycle means creating a new product out of a material that already served its purpose
Paper recycling
SCIENCE FACTDid you know that recycling two aluminum cans saves enough energy to power a
television?
Recover
Recovering energy that comes from the trash itself
Incineration technology – one way of generating energy from wastes
It involves producing electricity by burning garbage in the incinerator.
Recovering wastes also involves segregation.
The garbage collected are segregated in a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).
The collected garbage are sorted out according to class.
Repair Repair means to fix slightly broken
things be used again
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